Fire-hose cabinet.



G. W. NOBLE. I IRE HOSE CABINET. APPLIOATION P ILED JUNE 17. 1911.

Patented Dec,31, 1912.

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UNTFQ SAT i s patinar ornrcn GEORGE W. NOBLE, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN SIMMONS COM- IPANY, OE NEW YORK, N. Y., .A CCBJORATION OF NEW YORK.

FIRE-HOSE CABINET.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented Dec. 3i, i912.

Application filed .Tune 17, 1911. Serial No. 633,724.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. NOBLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Hose Cabinets, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in tire hose supporting devices.

The especial object of the invention is to produce a hre hose supporting device suitable or use in office and other buildings of such character and arrangement that the parts may be suitably incased whereby they are less liable to become injured by dirt or rust than it exposed to the air, and less likely to be tampered with, but at the same time may be very quickly and expeditiously brought into use. Generally this object is carried out by incasing the device in a casing or cabinet secured to the wall or sunk in a recess formed in the wall of the building with which it is used, though if desired in some circumstances the sides of a recess sunk in the wall may be used for incasing the device. The device includes a member which is provided with hose loop holding means on which the hose may be hung in loops. This loop holding member is preterably pivoted and on being rocked on its pivot acts to drop the hose and tree it very quickly. To insure the hose being treed from the casing, there is provided an ejecting device adapted to contact with the loops of the hose and acting to eject them from the casing. This ejecting device also preterably cooperates with the pivoted member to cause it to drop the hose and acting in conjunction with it provides a very speedy means tor freeing the hose from the casing in condition for immediate use.

For a more complete understanding of the invention, a detailed description of the same will now be given in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure vl is a tace view partly in section and partly broken away, showing the improved tire hose supporting device with the hose in position of non-use; Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2 2 ot Fig. l; Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. l, partly broken away, the hose being removed to show the ejector device; Fig. l is a cross section on line 4 4; of Fig. l.

Referring now to the drawings, an improved tire hose supporting device is shown as secured to a wall of the building which is indicated by the numeral l. t will, of course, be understood, however, that the device may be used in other relations, it desired, as being positioned in a recess in the wall. As illustrated in the drawings, the improved device includes a casing or cabinet which when used has a back 4, by which it is secured to the wall of the building, side walls 5, and top and bottom 5a and 5b. Secured to the side walls in any suitable manner may be provided a molding 6 to which is hinged a door 7.

Located in the casing is a hose loop holding member 8, the construction of which may be somewhat varied. ln the particular construction illustrated, this member comprises a bar or rod 9 (see Fig. 4L) which is pivotally mounted so as to swing freely in ears l0 suitably secured vin the casing to the back wall et thereof. rlhe bar 9 is provided with a plurality of hose loop holding projections which, in the particular construction illustrated, are short rods 11, rigidly tiXed to the bar. rlhe hose 12 is connected at one end to the stand-pipe 2, which is shown preferably inclosed by the casing, and is looped over these loop holding rods l1 in individual loops, the other end of the hose being attached to a nozzle 13, which may lie on the bottom wall 5b of the casing, or be otherwise disposed so as to be readily accessible.

Vhen a pivoted hose loop holding bar is employed means are provided for holding it and the hose looped thereto in hose holding position, as shown in full lines in Figs. l and 2, and these means are ot' such a character as to lock the bar in position by engagement therewith so that when the holding means are released from engagement the weight of the hose rocks the bar on its pivots and the hose is treed therefrom.A To 'facilitate the removal of the hose from the casing and to insure its dropping free from the casing when it is released from the bar and so prevent-ing it from catching on the bottom of the casing and becoming tangled,

an ejector device is provided. which acts to eject or throw the hose from the casing. Preferably also, and as illustrated, this ejector device acts to hold the bar in hose holding position, being provided with means engaging with ,the bar for accomplishing this purpose.

rlhe construction or' the ejector device and the means controlled by it for holding the bar in position may be very widely varied. In the particular construction illustrated, the holding` bar is provided near each of its ends with lugs l5 with which lugs are arranged to engage holding members 1G suitably secured on the ejector device, and which will be hereinafter referred to. rlhis ejecting device acts to eject or throw the hose outwardly from the casing so that it will fall free, and preferably the ejector device acts to so throw the lower portion et the hose free of the casing just before the holding means are released and the bar permitted to drop to free the hose from the hose holding projections on the bar.

ln the construction illustrated, which shows a convenient form of ejector, the ejector device includes a trame 1T which is pivoted on studs 18 mounted in ears 19 suitably secured on the back wallfl of the casing. The frame 17 comprises side strips 20 and a cross strip 2l connecting` the side strips 20 at or near their lower ends. rfhis cross strip 21. is in the particular construction illustrated the part of the ejector which contacts with the hose and ejects it from the casing. rlhe strip 2l will, therefore, be of suitable width to contact with all the hose loops so as to throw them all from the casing. Other cross strips 22 .may be provided, but these may be omitted it their employment is not desired. The ejector frame 17, as before stated, is provided at its upper part with the holding members 1G, one of these holding members being provided on the end ot each of the side trames 20. These holding members are so shaped as to permit the frame to be swung outwardly .sulliciently to eject the bottom part of the hose from the casing before they release the bar 9, which holds the hose loops. lV hen the hose is in position the weight of the hose causes the ejector frame to lie back close to the back wall of the casing. To operate the ejector frame suitable means are provided such as a handle 2li suitably secured to the frame and projecting beyond the loops ol the hose, as indicated in F ig. 2, by which the ejector may be rocked on its pivot to eject and release the hose so that it will fall clear of the casing.

With the construction above described, a very ei'ticient hose apparatus is provided and one which may be very quickly put into operation, the ejector device acting in conjunction with the pivoted hose holding bar vthe combination with an incasing means, of

a member located therein and provided with hose loop-holding means, and an ejccting device operatively connected with the hose loop holding means for releasing the same and for ejecting the hose from the incasing means.

2. ln a device ot the character described,

'the combination with a casing, ot a member located therein and provided with hose loop-holding means, and an ejecting device operatively connected with the hose loop holding means tor releasing the same and for ejecting the hose from the casing.

3. ln a device of the character described, the combination with a casing, of a pivoted member provided with hose loop-holding' means located therein and arranged to rock on its pivot to release the hose, and an ejecting device operatively connected with the pivoted member for releasing the member and ejecting the hose trom the casing.

4. ln a device of the character described, the combination with a casing, of a pivoted member located therein provided with hose loop-holding means, means engaging therewith for retaining the member in hoseholding position, and an ejector device acting to release the engaging means and to eject the hose from the casing.

5. In a device of the character described, the combination with a casing, of a pivoted member located therein provided with loopholding means, a pivoted ejector device, means on the ejector for engaging with the pivoted member to retain it in hose-holding position, and means for operating the ejector to cause it to release the pivoted member and to eject the hose from the casing.

6. ln a device of the character described, the combination with a casing, of a pivoted member located therein provided with hose loop-holding means, means engaging therewith for holding the member in hose-holding position, and' an ejector device having a part adapted to be brought into Contact with the hose, said ejector device acting to release the engaging means and to eject the hose from the casing.

7. ln a device of the character described, the combination with a casing, of a pivoted member located. therein provided with hose loop-holding means, and an ejector device having a part adapted to be'brought into contact With the hose, and means for operating the ejector to eject the hose from the casing.

8. In a device of the character described, the combination with a casing, ot' a pivoted member located therein provided With hose loop-holding means, a pivoted ejector provided with means engaging With the pivoted member for holding it in hose holding position, said ejector having a part adapted to be brought into contact With the hose,

and acting to eject the hose from the casing and to release the engaging means whereby When the hose is released from the holding means it Will fall free of the casing.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

GEORGE W. NOBLE.

Witnesses:

A. WHITE, P. B. PHILIPP.

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